17th Day of Internship

It has been two weeks plus since i first joined AmInvestment Bank as a trainee. Every morning, i wake up, wash up, dress up, drive to the LRT station, take a train to Terminal Putra to avoid the daily congestion, a 25min train to Dang Wangi, pick up a copy of the Sun, walk over and switch to Monorail to Raja Chulan, a 10 minute walk to reach Bangunan AmBank. When i reach there, i look like i just ran a marathon. Take the elevator to the 14th floor, enter the office, sit down, cool down, take out my breakfast, make a cup of milo, and read the Sun till it's 8.45AM.

I usually don't like routines. It's just so boring.

Other than that, i made a call to Singapore, waited 30min plus in a few calls for the Streamyx Customer Service, made a call to Tropicana and write a few formulas on XML. That's practically what i did today.

I haven't been online for the past few days because my modems broke down on me. All three of the modems broke down on the same effing day. Even my backup modem, the Streamyx Official Modem broke down. The existing one could not boot up and the Streamyx one could not establish a coonection with the DSL line. I had to fork out RM108 to get myself a new D-Link 4Port modem router just to come home and find that i forgotten my effing password which i had change a few months back. Has to make a million calls to Tm Nut before they answer the phone. They basically do not need any knowledge to work on the hotline because they have a guidebook or a flowchart i do not know. Here is how it goes

1. Have you made a direct connection?
Yes - Proceed
No - Ask customer to perform one.

3. Perform Direct Connection
Success - Router Problem
Fail - Proceed

2. Open up CMD and ping 127.0.0.1
Success - Proceed
Fail - Restart Modem

3. Type IPConfig /all and see the IP
Success - Proceed
Fail - Restart NIC

4. If still cannot
Reset port/report/wait for technician

Follow the guidebook and you can solve everybody's problem. I think the main thing is not to solve the problem but to just provide a service for the customers to listen to the annoying music while waiting for a human soul to pick up a phone that will try to solve your bloody problem for you so that you feel satisfied because the service is provided.

Enough of that rant.

On to another topic, Have anyone of you tarcian recieve an email about the Aunty that sells Wan Tan Noodles over at SPL in Genting Klang? I always like to eat her noodles because she makes a generous portion. But after recieving this mail, i felt sorry for her.

一个卖面安娣的故事（setapak)
不懂你们有没有遇过她。。。

她在prima setapak附近的一个小食中心买面。。。
在7-11和pasar中间的小食档（新朋霖）
很容易认的，她的背后有一个很大的驼峰。。。
她在那里卖甘香鸡面，鸡丝河粉，档口是在里面的。。。
70多岁了，我认识了她7年。。。
如果你去买面吃，他会笑容满面地问你要吃什么，坐下后不久，他就会捧一碟大大碟的面，有时还大到吃不完。。。她和一些学生的感情不错的，那些学生时常去“帮衬”她。

她和老太公在附近租了一间房间住，本来好好的。。。
去年，她老公心脏病进了医院，他们的问题就出现了。。。
虽然是政府医院，不过药也要钱，再加上需要吃一些中药，经济就出了问题。。

他告诉我，他一天卖到大约30碟面，百多块收入，扣除本钱，档口的租金，身下不到几十块，有时有赚到30块，算是不错了。。。
她的房租300，有时候没办法，需要欠房东钱，还好房东也没有太过逼她。。。
有时要钱买药，没办法，被逼想起他人借钱，不过，又有几个人肯借钱给这样老的人呢？没办法时，只有ahlong可以帮到她。
我劝他不可借阿隆，她讲没有办法，连买药的钱都没有了。。。

我希望借着佳礼，希望拉曼学生怀着恻隐之心，帮帮这个老人家。
每个人都要吃午餐晚餐的，如果你们到那里吃，何不想想，可以帮到一个需要帮助的人，又不用给多余的钱（一碗面RM4.00,小碗的RM3.50)。
叫没上佳礼的朋友们，一起去吃。。。

吃东西又可以帮到人，何乐而不为？？？

Apparently, her husband was admitted into hospital and she has a hard time making a living to support herself and pay the medical fees for her husband. It's really sad to see her like that. So i hope maybe tarcians living around setapak could go buy her stall and order a plate of noodles. She had to turn to the loan sharks for money. She's already in her 70's and she has to work so hard. Sometimes life is just unfair.

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Special Notice:

Event: Microsoft Malaysia Imagine Cup Finals
Date: 19th May 2009, Tuesday
Time: 10am - 1pm
Venue: Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre

It's happening guys! The Imagine Cup Finals. I wonder what impressive ideas i will see there. I really hope to attend but i think i won't be able to. I am really impressed but a lot of the ideas that my coursemates have came up with to reach the finals for the college level. But this is on a whole new level because it includes other students from whole Malaysia. It is gonna be very exciting!



Head to YouTube to see a lot of samples from the past winners and contestants. Fantastic ideas i tell you.

Well, i guess i'll stop here. I just got connected to the web like two hours ago. Am real happy to be back online. Haha

So cheers to you guys and girls ! Until then !